Creating the Reading : The Infrastructure

Trains need railroad tracks and other infrastructure to run and deliver passengers or freight. My next step was to create this infrastructure for the Reading. I decided to begin the map itself at the main hub of Philadelphia. The exact point of the center of the map is the 9th Street Viaduct, which still stands today, spanning from Temple University to Reading Terminal (which of course is not active today.) The viaduct is active from Green Street to Temple University, under Septa. Since most of the infrastructure stands today, creating the viaduct was going to be very easy due to seeing it in person and Google Maps. I used the same steps in creating the trains as creating infrastructure; using Blender to model, texture using a program such as Substance Painter outside of both, then import to Roblox. I used the rollingstock, such as the coaches, for scaling infrastructure. 

Viaduct Catenary Poles in Blender (Coach for Scaling)

The first piece of infrastructure I built was the catenary poles along the viaduct, which hold the wires for electric powered trains. Once imported, I connected them with wires, creating this : 

Test Scene with the Catenary Poles.

My next piece of infrastructure I built was the viaduct structure itself, which was completed and imported within an hour. 

Viaduct Section + Catenary Pole

    

The next step is to start the scenery around the area, and to extend the map further out than just a single viaduct section.